My wife and I booked a cruise back in April and, shortly thereafter, booked flights on Delta in order to get to Los Angeles to get on the cruise. Delta failed in every single aspect. Below is the body of the letter this is going to Delta in an effort to try to get something back out of the $1036 we spent trying to catch up to our cruise.
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On Sunday, October 11 my wife and I were scheduled to fly out of Bishop International Airport on a flight to Los Angeles, CA, where we would participate in our first cruise. We have been confirmed on the following flights since April 18, 2009:
Delta flight 6427 to Atlanta (Scheduled to depart at 5:35 a.m. and to arrive in Atlanta at 7:38 a.m.)
Delta flight 2801 to Los Angeles (Scheduled to depart at 8:29 a.m. and to arrive at 10:20 a.m.)
Were we to have arrived on time, we would have a window of almost 6 hours to make it to our 7-day Mexico cruise.
Read more after the jump.
On Saturday, April 18 my wife and I booked passage on the Star Trek Cruise!

Star Trek Cruise
On October 11 we’ll be flying from Flint, MI to Los Angeles and then taking a shuttle to the dock where we will depart on a seven-day voyage on board the Mariner of the Seas. We debated on this for quite a while, but decided that 1) we’ve always wanted to go on a cruise and b) This would be a great First Cruise to go on. Since we’re both big Star Trek fans we couldn’t pass up the opportunity.
On board the cruise will be Star Trek actors Garret Wang, Marina Sirtis, Chase Masterson (YOWZA!), Tim Russ, and Alan Ruck (“when Cameron was in Egypt’s land”…).
The countdown for the cruise in on the upper left corner of this page…and it’s moving much too slowly…
Click Here for more information about the cruise.
Looking back, I’ve done a fair amount of traveling. The good folks at TripAdvisor (whom I occasionally write reviews for) make it easy to keep track of where you’ve been.
Below is my travel map. It’s kind of fun to see where you’ve been and to think back on the good (or, as it is, not-so-good) memories associated with location or how you got there.